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Originally Posted by jggimi

...I recommend dpb(1).

While I agree that dpb(8) is preferrable in that it parallelizes port building, it does not come without understanding the fundamental issues with parallelization -- most notably memory requirements. Other factors exist too.

In my experience, building ports using amd64 is less cantankerous than i386 even with changing the memory profile in login.conf(5) & ksh(1)'s ulimit command. Watching dpb's error log sometimes necessitates restarts or resorting to make install as described in Section 15.3.5 of the FAQ.

Having said that, dpb is a great addition to the port building toolkit.